Sanders is popular in part, for these non-ideological reasons:
First, folks just know the financial industry crashed the economy in 2008 and then got made whole and rescued by our professional political class.
Crooks got no punishment, at all. In fact in my area, banks have been adding branches like there is no end.
So Bernie wants to take them down a few rungs, and people think it needs doing. People think “too big to fail” was a big crock of crap.
Next, Bernie seems to be too old, to have much time left to benefit from crooked politics. Again he is attractive.
Both those reasons are non-ideological, just like most or many voters.
The don’t like him for socialism; they like him for their versions of common sense and fairness.
“First, folks just know the financial industry crashed the economy in 2008 and then got made whole and rescued by our professional political class.”
And Trump fully supported the bail out.
He had to. He is fully dependent on the global financial industry to do anything in his business.
Such folks are nitwits.
The government crashed the economy by enabling a real estate bubble caused by its compelling the banks to lend to un-credit-worthy types to realize a libtard goal of vote buying via enabling home ownership.
Crooks got no punishment, at all.
Why should the bankers have been punished? They cooperated with the government, even establishing expensive compliance departments! How are they to blame? The government wanted home ownership, and the bankers (and allied financial services types) did all they could to get with the program and comply!
In fact in my area, banks have been adding branches like there is no end.
Where I am, most of the sleek, new branches are green (TD Bank North) or red (Banco Santander). Neither of which is American, although both of them are fine retail banks. But B of A still has most of the free-standing ATMs.
Both those reasons are non-ideological, just like most or many voters.
The don’t like him for socialism; they like him for their versions of common sense and fairness.
That's why they are sheeple!
No, government was responsible for the financial crash in '08 and '09. The Occupy Wall Street crowd sees it differently, but the facts all point to government. Same as it ever was.
For more on that, see Thomas Sowell. But beware, to Trump supporters, Sowell is no longer a conservative.